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Jurgis Kirsakmens 11h ago

Don't like the new #LiquidAss either.
#WWDC26

C.19h ago

Enshittifying the hardware to lock the faithful into royalty-producing "Apple-approved" compatible accessories.

Then, constant slow degradation of UI/UX.

That culminates in Liquid Ass, which Saint Steve would have burned to the ground.

Now, pushing ChatGPT for everything - all stuff no one wants.

And somehow, the Tame Apple Press and the Apple Reality Distortion Field will bring forth enough cult members to sell millions of whatever crap the company wants to push on them.

[Remember "More powerful than a supercomputer, right on your desktop" ? Pepperidge Farm remembers. And no, I'm not an Apple fan, at least not the Apple of recent decades.]

#Apple #RealityDistortionField #TameApplePress #RDF #TAP #AppleTax #WWDC #cult #LiquidAss #SteveJobs

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Netzblockierer 23h ago

@iamada did they do anything but appeasibg Cyberfascists with "Parental Cobtrols", advertised more built-in AIslop and told everyone they'll enshittify more devices than before with Liquid glAss!

#Apple #WWDC #Advetising #ParentalCobtrols #iOS #macOS #AIslop #AppleIntelligence #LiquidAss #LiquidGlass #Enshittification

Mike Roach 1d ago

It’s 2026 and Apple is talking about UI redesigns so you can tell which window is focused. #wwdc #liquidglass #liquidass

Simon newslttrs.com 1d ago

Five point releases into iOS 26 and we’re still at the “randomly obscuring large parts of the UI” stage of development #ios #ios26 #liquidglass #liquidass #ui #apple #userhostile

tekphloyd 3d ago

File List vs Path and Status Bar

FIGHT!!!!!!!

#LiquidAss #Apple #macOS

XCondE 3d ago

The Rat fuckers at #Apple finally caught me with the #LiquidAss update.

I got our kid an Apple Watch, and I can only pair it on iOS 26.

#Rant

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R.L. Dane

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4d ago

@prozacchiwawa @Seg

This is a drum I've been beating like the village idiot for years now.

I see a lot of factors:

the insane growth and popularity of iOS circa 2009-2015 meant that the iOS team dominated over the Mac team, and MacOS started imitating iOS as a kind of compensation (or for any other numerous, but spurious reasons)
- iOS' design was great for a touch device. Not perfect, probably not as good as MacOS X for keyboard/mouse, but definitely one of the most intuitive touch interfaces. It makes for a crappy keyboard/mouse interface, particularly with the stupidly thin, buttonless, and disappearing scrollbars (I don't think scrollbars should disappear, even on mobile. They're an important marker for the size and position of the viewport)
The engineers, developers, and designers that laid the foundational principles for UI design in the 80s-2000s have almost all retired, or were simply ignored
Chesterton's Fence. If you haven't heard of it, the pertinent quote, prominently displayed in a blockquote on that page, is only 235 words long. Please read it. It's a very important principle

So yeah, younger designers got in, said, "Oh my, my, doesn't that all look so fusty! I'm gonna make it ALL better!"

And there we have "Liquid Ass," and the disease spreads to Windows and Linux desktops.

#ChestertonsFence #UIDesign #Devolution #LiquidAss

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